In a case involving “merchant model transactions” where online travel companies (OTCs) act as the merchant of record and facilitate the booking of rooms from various hotels, a Louisiana Court of Appeal affirmed that the OTCs are not “hotels” or “dealers” in these transactions and thus do not owe Louisiana sales and use taxes on the amounts they collect from consumers for facilitating the hotel reservations.
Source Deloitte
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